Art & Architecture 2010 press.princeton.edu Contents American 1 Museum Studies 4 Architecture 5 Visual Culture 6 Modern 9 Photography 10 Renaissance & Baroque 12 Medieval 13 Ancient & Islamic 14 British 16 French 18 Asian 19 National Gallery of Art, Systematic Catalogues 20 The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 22 Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University 23 The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 24 Index/Order Form 25 Cover Image: “The Masses” cover, September 1917, by Carlo Leonetti; Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries NEW NEW PAPErback The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins With a new preface by Edited by William Innes Homer the author American Moderns “Long awaited, this valuable collection of letters presents Bohemian New York and the Thomas Eakins in his own words at a formative stage of Creation of a New Century his career, offering a fascinating record of triumphs and Christine Stansell struggles as well as a lively display of the skills, interests, confident opinions, and complex personality of a great “Stansell frames her book around American artist.” three activities: talking, writing and —Kathleen A. Foster, author of Thomas Eakins Rediscovered loving. She compels readers to ap- preciate what was shockingly new The most revealing and interesting writings of American in each activity—no small feat, since artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and we now take (nearly) for granted the friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and unfettered speech, print and sex that 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety these early radicals found so daring.” for the first time; in fact, this is the first edition of Eakins’s —Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times correspondence from the period. Edited and annotated by Eakins authority William Innes Homer, this book “[Stansell’s] history of Greenwich provides a treasure trove of new information, revealing Village between 1890 and 1920 never previously hidden facets of Eakins’s personality, providing forgets that people who defy political a richer picture of his artistic development, and casting convention and people who defy artis- fresh light on his much-debated psychosexual makeup. tic convention gravitate toward each The book is illustrated with the small, gemlike drawings other whatever their differences.” Eakins included in his correspondence, as well as photo- —Village Voice graphs and paintings. “[American Moderns] is about the cre- This long-overdue volume provides an indispensable ation of a new life in early-twentieth- portrait of a great American artist as a young man. century New York. Stansell’s book is a triumph.” William Innes Homer is H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeri- —Eunice Lipton, The Nation tus of Art History at the University of Delaware. Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler 2009. 384 pages. 33 halftones. 35 line illus. 6 x 9. Cl: 978-0-691-13808-4 $35.00 £24.95 Distinguished Service Professor in United States History at the University of Chicago. 2009. 440 pages. 37 halftones. 6 x 9. Pa: 978-0-691-14283-8 $24.95 £16.95 PUP.PRIN CETON.EDU AMERIcaN 1 Winner of the 2009 Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association Rackstraw Downes, 2009 MacArthur Fellow Winner of the 2009 Peter C. Rollins Award, Northeast Popular Culture/ American Culture Association Rackstraw Downes New York Nocturne Sanford Schwartz, Robert Storr & The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Rackstraw Downes Photography, 1850–1950 “Rackstraw Downes, the veteran paint- William Chapman Sharpe er of landscapes and urban places, is a “My favorite book of the year. 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